Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

AfriForum opposes NHI bill in Southern Cape

ByAfriForum 22/09/202322/09/2023

AfriForum representatives attended the public hearings for the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) held on 18 and 19 September in Beaufort West and George respectively, to submit oral comments on this.

According to AfriForum, the bill is entirely unrealistic and impractical. In AfriForum’s comments at these two hearings Marthinus Erasmus, AfriForum’s District Coordinator for the Southern Cape, pointed to several important concerns that AfriForum has regarding the bill, namely the lack of details on how the NHI could be implemented, what it would cost and who would manage it. In addition, AfriForum believes that the intended funding of the NHI will place an unsustainable burden on taxpayers.

“The government should firstly focus on economic growth and tackle the problems in the current health system rather than trying to launch a programme like the NHI. The money that is currently being spent on this could much rather be spent on the resolving existing problems at public hospitals,” explains Erasmus.

AfriForum warns that the NHI will be an expensive mistake, which will not make any improvement to South Africa’s health system. Instead, it will paralyse the system. The majority of available research and analysis shows that the NHI will be an expensive and devastating failure.

“We request that the National Council of Provinces reject the bill before it leads to the destruction of health care in South Africa,” concludes Erasmus.

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